IT Systems Programme Manager

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With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Since going live with the Cerner PAS in Apr 2014, the Trust has embarked on a journey to digitise clinical records. Excellent progress has been made and the Cerner EPR is now in use across the organisation by all clinical services. Following the success of this project, the Chelsea and Westminster, Imperial, London Northwest and Hillindgon Trust Boards have decided to share the same instance of Cerner. The NHS England's Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) programme provided access to funding and enabled the Trusts to progress their digital strategy far more rapidly than before. As a result of a successful partnership, all 4 Trusts are now running a join clinical systems programme to maximise on the opportunities that comes with sharing the same Cerner EPR domains.

The clinical systems programme at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust and Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will focus on a series of projects to improve care across the patient pathways in the outpatients, inpatient elective, inpatient non-elective and emergency settings.

The role of the IT Systems Programme Manager will be to ensure the development and implementation of the clinical systems programme and digital strategy, to lead the identification of a portfolio of projects to realise the strategy and to oversee the development of detailed project briefs and PIDs and their subsequent initiation and completion.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for progressing the Clinical Systems Programme and strategy for the ICT.
• As IT Systems Programme Manager, ensure that all projects are delivered on time, to budget and meet the quality criteria required to achieve the identified Trust benefits, including cost reduction and avoidance, simplified, streamlined work processes, improved user experience and improved efficiencies for the Trust.
• Responsible for developing and tracking a portfolio of projects to realise the strategy and activating those projects, providing regular status reports to the Head of PMO and to the Steering Groups.
• Responsible for leading and delivering some corporate projects from initial inception through to delivery and Trust-wide rollout, engaging all parties across the Trust, and external bodies, as required to ensure the projects' objectives are realised.
• Build strong working relationships across the Trust, allowing the identification of opportunities and promotion of solutions to be provided by the ICT Directorate, influencing and effecting change at the Executive, Clinical and Administrative levels.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent.
• Specialist project and programme management qualifications (e.g. MSP, Prince 2 accredited or equivalent), complemented by evidence of practical application.
• Specialist qualification in structured systems and business analysis.

Desirable criteria

• Ongoing professional development in programme and project management.

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Track record of delivering programmes to time and budget, through the use of multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience in Systems Strategy Development across multiple departments/functions with large organisations.
• Good general understanding of technology and potential project issues arising from the use of different technology platforms in use across the Trust.

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Highly developed knowledge of structured programme, portfolio and project management methodologies, gained through both formal training and practical experience.
• Able to use programme and project planning tools (e.g. MS Project, Primavera, Artemis, and PMW) effectively, with an in-depth understanding of their capabilities.
• Highly developed organisational and planning skills, with the ability to coordinate several workstreams across different functions.

Communication Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to receive and understand complex and often conflicting information in initiating projects.
• Able to articulate complex project or technical (IT) issues simply to any involved parties.
• Excellent ability to communicate verbally and in writing to audiences at all levels. Comfortable in presenting complex ideas to large mixed audiences, with the ability to effectively present to a live audience of 200 or more.
• Able to communicate project progress/issues to all levels of the Trust, both verbally and in written reports, as well as to external third parties.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 406.6KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)